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Air warfare in the Cold War (238)
Season 12 Episode 238
The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised but nonetheless very intense wars througho…
3 years, 9 months ago
Arrested by the KGB and taken to the Lubyanka prison (237)
Season 12 Episode 237
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War.
Don't miss the …
3 years, 9 months ago
The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236)
Season 12 Episode 236
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Her story begi…
3 years, 9 months ago
The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea (235)
Season 12 Episode 235
The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 1–8 July 1989 in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It was the largest international …
3 years, 10 months ago
Britain’s Cold War Human Chemical Warfare Experiments (234)
Season 12 Episode 234
Ian Foulkes was exposed to the deadly nerve agent Sarin in 1983 at the Porton Down Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment., one of the UK's most…
3 years, 10 months ago
Flying for the CIA's Air America in South East Asia (233)
Season 12 Episode 233
In 1964, pilot Captain Hansen found himself unemployed. He began to send out feelers to several companies including one that had placed an ad in the …
3 years, 10 months ago
A photojournalist in Cold War Eastern Europe (232)
Season 12 Episode 232
During the 1970s and 1980s, Arthur Grace travelled extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news magazines. One of only a small cor…
3 years, 10 months ago
Escaping from Cold War Romania (231)
Season 12 Episode 231
Zsolt Akos Pall was 17 when he decided to flee Cold War Romania for a better life in the West.
It’s a heart-warming story of the generosity of strang…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Hungarian childhood in Cold War Romania (230)
Season 11 Episode 230
Zsolt Akos Pall was born in a small town in the Hungarian speaking part of Romania.
For ordinary people, life in Romania in the 1980s was very hard a…
3 years, 11 months ago
The shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229)
Season 11 Episode 229
The year 1983 was one of the most dangerous in human history. While the Cuban crisis was exceptionally dangerous and both the United States and the S…
3 years, 11 months ago